Comments on: Distribution 2009 http://www.publishingtrends.com/2009/06/distribution-2009/ News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:36:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dave Bricker http://www.publishingtrends.com/2009/06/distribution-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Dave Bricker Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:37:09 +0000 http://www.publishingtrends.com/?p=412#comment-93 It's simple. Distributors have products to sell and publishers are becoming more and more irrelevant. Either directly or through vanity publishers (otherwise known as printers), writers can connect directly with an ever-shrinking pond of big distributors. The market space for books (or anything else) is noisy and crowded and few publishers offer a writer any real value as far as getting their work seen or promoted. Again, a few big publishers may have the ability to manipulate some bookstore shelf space with volume deals, but more people are buying online where that's irrelevant. Record labels are headed for the landfill, too. See author Richard Geller's website at <a href="http://www.aSiteAboutSomething.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.aSiteAboutSomething.com</a>. He offers three novels and an album of original music through his own website with his own distribution technology. He's had more traffic in the past week than in the last 3 years of trying to market his work, and his take on EBook publishing is innovative and fun. Be sure to download the one free book instead of just reading the online version. The books are excellent, but it's not like the publishing industry has responded with services of any value. My bet is he'll do better on his own. How many writers are out there sitting on a stack of books while they wait for a meaningful response from a publisher? It’s simple. Distributors have products to sell and publishers are becoming more and more irrelevant. Either directly or through vanity publishers (otherwise known as printers), writers can connect directly with an ever-shrinking pond of big distributors. The market space for books (or anything else) is noisy and crowded and few publishers offer a writer any real value as far as getting their work seen or promoted. Again, a few big publishers may have the ability to manipulate some bookstore shelf space with volume deals, but more people are buying online where that’s irrelevant. Record labels are headed for the landfill, too.

See author Richard Geller’s website at http://www.aSiteAboutSomething.com. He offers three novels and an album of original music through his own website with his own distribution technology. He’s had more traffic in the past week than in the last 3 years of trying to market his work, and his take on EBook publishing is innovative and fun. Be sure to download the one free book instead of just reading the online version. The books are excellent, but it’s not like the publishing industry has responded with services of any value. My bet is he’ll do better on his own. How many writers are out there sitting on a stack of books while they wait for a meaningful response from a publisher?

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